Sheet-metal eye for garment-hooks.



No. 827,841. PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906 e. E. BARBER. I

SHEET METAL EYE FOR GARMENT HOOKS. APPLICATION FILED 1130.27.1905.

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEQRG E E. BARBER, 'OF DERBY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR THE STAR PIN COMPANY, OF DERBY, CONNECTICUT, A "CORPORATION OF "GON- N EOTICUT.

Patented Aug. .7, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

(Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BARBER, a citizen .of the United States, residing at Derby, county of New Haven,'-State of Con- 5 necticut, have invented a new and useful Sheet-Metal Eye for Garment-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a sheet-metal eye forgarment-hooks adapted for general use, and. especially adapted-for use upon heavy garments where relatively heavy hacks are usedand there is a strong pull upon theeye. v I am well aware that sheet-metal eyes having the general configuration in plan of my novel eye are incommon use and, furthermore, that numerous designs of eyes for garment-hooks have been made from wire. Wire eyes are all-right upon light garments, but upon heavy garments, when used in connection with heavy hooks, they bend to such an extent as to make them seriously objectionable, owing to the puckering or wrinkling of the arment, unless made from disproportionate y heavy wire, which gives a bungling and anything but a neat appearance to the garment, and is therefore objectionable for I that reason. Sheet-metal eyes for garmenthooks as heretofore made have sometimes been flat and lie flat upon the garment, so that in use the eye must be rocked or tilted for engagement by the hook or else the cloth between the points of attachment must be stretched downward or left loose enough to permit the bill of the hook to be passed under the cross-bar of the eye. This is objectionable for the reason that it wrinkles the garment, does not make a neat engagement between the hook and the eye, and is also seriously objectionable for the reason that the rocking or tilting of the attaching ends of the eye in engaging and disengaging the hooks places an undue strain upon the threads by which the eyes are attached and, moreover, wears the threads, so that where the strain is great the eyes becomedetached in use.

5 My present invention has for its object to overcome the various objections to wire eyes and to sheet-metal eyes as heretofore constructed by providing a sheet-metal eye hav-' ing an ofl'set cross-bar and attaching ends which lie parallel with the surface of the garment to which they are attached, so that in use there is no rocking or .tfltingtofthe eye, the bill of thehookmay bepassedunderthe cross-bar easily and conveniently and -with out wrinkling or puc'kering thezgarment, in which the strain upon the .eye Shall be .a horizontal strain-in the direction ofjits width instead of a liftinglormocking Strairnand in which there shall be no movementofztheattaching ends in use, as they are attached firmly to the garment :and ilie 5 closely intcontact therewith without movement in use.

With these and other objects in view Ihave devised the novel offset sheet-metal eye for garment-hooks which I will now describe, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and using reference characters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is an inverted plan view illustrating my novel eye in use, a hook being shown in engagement therewith; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the eye and longitudinal section of the hook on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a crosssection of the hook on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2,

showing the eye in elevation; and Fig. 4 is a without displacing, wrinkling, or puckering the garment.

' 13 denotes the shank of a hook, 14 the bill, which in use is engaged with the cross-bar in the usual manner, as clearly shown in the drawings, and 15 the hump. It will be read ily understood from Fig. 2 that the bill of the plan view of the eye detached, all of the views The attaching ends lie fiat upon and hook is engaged with the eye without any tilting of the eye or displacement of the cloth of the garment to which the eye is attached and, furthermore, that the pull upon the eye is in a plane parallel with the attaching ends, so that no matter how great the strain may be the eye is not rocked or tilted to the slightest extent, andthere is no wear upon the attaching-threads (not shown) except the neeessary strain of use. It should be noted that all the strain upon the eye is in the direction of its Width, so that-in use it cannot be bent or sprung out of place when used upon heavy hook that would tend'to raise the bar if it were flat from end to end is ofl'set by the pull on the central raised part tending to rock the bar downward, and owing to the fact that the central portion of the bar is located at one side of the perpendicular plane referred to. the pull of the hook tending to rock the bar downward is much less than if the said raised portion of the bar were directly or nearly above a line connecting the holes through which the attaching-threads pass.

Consequently the two rocking tendencies ofi"- set each other and the wear of the attachingthreads is reduced to the minimum.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A sheet-metal eye for garment-hooks comprising fiat ends having holes for attaching threads and a cross-bar 1 connecting the attaching ends and oflset up ward and laterally therefrom, the hook-engaging portion of the eye being located approximately as far to one side of a plane perpendicular to the plane of said flat ends and through the centers of said holes as it is above the plane of said fiat ends.

In testimony whereof I 'aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE E. BARBER.

Witnesses:

FLORENCE E. BING. MARGARET B. Horn). 

